NAME

       osmosis - command line OpenStreetMap data processor

SYNOPSIS

       osmosis [--command command parameters ...] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the osmosis command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does
       not have a manual page.

       osmosis is a command-line Java program that processes OpenStreetMap data. It consistes of
       a series of component which can be chained together in order to perform operations on
       OpenStreetMap databases or XML files.

       Such options include:

       •   Generate and load dumps from and to a database.

       •   Produce changesets comparing databases and files and applying them to other databases
           and files.

       •   Sort data contained in a file.

       •   Extract data contained in a bounding box or in a polygon.

OPTIONS

       The commands and arguments accepted by osmosis are described in details and shown in
       examples in the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis and its subpages.

BUGS

       The upstreams BTS can be found at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/. Bugs are also discussed
       on upstream mailing list, at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev.

AUTHOR

       Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
           Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2009 Giovanni Mascellani

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published
       by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.